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文体学与修辞学 精品文档 精品文档 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 精品文档 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 Significance of Studies of Stylistics and Rhetoric Stylistics is a scientific study of style. The word style used in the definition refers to a distinctive or characteristic manner of expression in language. By identifying and analysing both the effects and processes in employing the devices in languages such as rhetorical figures as Active Rhetorical Means and syntactical patterns, as Passive Rhetorical Means.? Stylistics also attempts to establish principles capable of explaining the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language, such as \o Socialisation socialisation, the production and reception of \o Meaning (linguistic) meaning, critical \o Discourse analysis discourse analysis and \o Literary criticism literary criticism. Other features of stylistics include the use of \o Dialogue dialogue, including regional \o Accent (linguistics) accents and people’s \o Dialects dialects, descriptive language, the use of \o Grammar grammar, such as the \o Active voice active voice or \o Passive voice passive voice, the distribution of \o Sentence (linguistics) sentence lengths, the use of particular \o Register (linguistics) language registers, etc. In addition, stylistics is a distinctive term that may be used to determine the connections between the form and effects within a particular variety of language. Therefore, stylistics looks at what is ‘going on’ within the language; what the linguistic associations are that the style of language reveals. Rhetoric is the art [practice] or science [the study] of communication in words; it means literally ‘the art of oratory, for in the former times, communication was carried on through speaking. Later it is generally believed that the principles and rules of composition should be encapsulated in the art of oratory, because the artistic use of language derives from well-composed scripts. Contemporary